Want to see a dead body? I present to you the Xbox. After a subdued launch at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the Xbox Series X quickly lost the fight against the PlayStation 5. Microsoft simply couldn’t … Read more
December 21, 2025 – written by richardg867 This is the December 2025 update to 86Box, bringing in performance improvements, bugfixes and some new hardware for the holidays. Main features Several small and localized performance improvements have been made to emulation … Read more
annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-12-20, Discuss on Hacker News We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million … Read more
I perform Maurice Ravel’s Boléro on a variety of homemade 8-bit instruments. [embedded content] Download Some stats and details 9 hours and 42 minutes of footage 52 mixer channels 13 neck- and bowties 9 different instruments 1 crazy automaton 0 … Read more
– HN errored on all authenticated requests with 502 Bad Gateway. It did still respond to a limited amount of unauthenticated requests with presumably cached pages, which did not get updated. The last post on /newest claimed “0 minutes ago”, … Read more
Whenever you compile using Rust, the compiler goes through different passes and in the end, generated binary code for the target processor. By default, it uses LLVM as backend to generate the binary code, but more backends exist like cranelift … Read more
Intro We built a complete VR setup from scratch to let rats play DOOM. The system includes a motion-tracked treadmill ball, a panoramic headset, an input trigger, and a reward circuit. All hardware and software components are open sourced, including … Read more
SVGs are pretty cool – vector graphics in a simple XML format. They are supported on just about every device and platform, are crisp on every display, and can have embedded scripts in to make them interactive. They’re way more … Read more
“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and attention that … Read more
